History

When in August 1992 got together in quite modest, very friendly and almost family-like conditions of the first guitar festival with 30 participants and 3 soloists in Rychnov nad Kneznou, nobody could seriously expect that in a few years' time this would become an international festival in which at about 160 guitarists from as many as 18 countries would take part every year and which would be acclaimed by guitar magazines such as Gendai Guitar (Japan), Classical Guitar (Great Britain), Soundboard (USA), Guitart (Italy), Le cahier de la guitare (France), Gitarre und Laute (Germany), Guitares (Belgium), Gitara (Poland) and other journals in Belorussia, Czech Republic and else where.


If at that time somebody had said that there might appear names of such guitarists as those listed in this year's programme, and all that would be achieved without a considerable financial help of big sponsors, who unfortunately prefer supporting sports rather than arts, the guitar experts would not have believed him, to say the least. They would have probably doubted his sanity. The festival grew of its own accord - the number of participants has been increasing from year to year and as far as soloists are concerned, they are so interested in taking part that there really is quality to choose from. With regard to the increasing interest among guitarists and in order to offer better accommodation possibilities the festival moved after six years of editions to city of Brno. The place is different, but both the character of the festival and the courses as well as the organizing board has remained exactly the same.

Today belongs International Guitar Festival BRNO one of the most important guitar festival in the Central Europe. To the festival comes regulary each year at about 150 – 180 participants.



Festival Performers and Teachers 1992 – 2010 (Rychnov n. K. – Brno)
Rafael Andía, Roberto Aussel, Vladislav Bláha, Remi Boucher, Instrumental trio of Brno, Julian Byzantine, Jorge Cardoso, Companía Flamenco Andaluz, Javier Conde y Grupo, Rafael Cortéz y Grupo, Arnoldo Garcia, Rafael Cuén Garibi, Luciano Damiani, Anielloo Desiderio, Melodie Dickerson, Jiří Dobeš, Uroš Dojčinovič, Zoran Dukič, Arnaud Dumond, Zdeněk Dvořák, John W. Duarte, Roland Dyens, Loraine Eastwood, Roger Eon, Kathryn Evans, Robetro Fabbri, Juan Falú, Massimo Felici, Jevgenij Finkelstein, Karel Fleischinger, Eric Franceris, Laurentiu Ganea, Boris Gaquere, Nicola Giuliani, René Gonzales, Antigoni Goni, Giovani Grano, Duo Guitarnet, Duo Guitacord, Guanajuato Guitar Quartet, Gabriel Guillén, Guitar Project Trio: Paolo Devecchi, Salvatore Falkone, Salvatore Seminara, Victor Monge „Serranito“y grupo, Oscar Gurmán y grupo, Yaron Hasson, Harvey Hope, Heinz Irmler, Simone Iannarelli, Jiří Jirmal, Masayuki Kato, Dale Kavanagh, Nikita Koshkin, Chris Kilvington, Miloslav Klaus, Jarema Klich, Frank Koonce, Francis Kleynjans, Georg Kugi, Ján Labant, David Leisner, Ezther Lencsés, Trio Lenz, Jana Lewitová, Michele Libraro, Maria Linnemann, Claudio Liviero, El Macareno y grupo, Enric Madriguera, Sabine Madriguera, Carlo Marchione, Vladimír Merta, Vladimír Mikulka, Sanja Milutinovic, Carlos Molina, Vania del Monaco, Jorge Morel, Martin Mysliveček, Gianluigi Muti, Gregory Newton, Nigel North, Gerardo Nuňez, Prague guitar quartet, Matanya Ophee, Juan Francisco Ortiz, Rafael Padrón, Real Duo, Stefano Palamidessi, Alfredo Panebianco, Sándor Papp, Paolo Pegoraro, Krzysztof Pelech, Jovan Pesec, Jorge del Pino, Ramiro Martínez Piňa, Sonja Prunnbauer, Máximo Diego Pujol, Štěpán Rak, José Antonio Rodriguez, Michel Rolland, Maria Isabel Siewers, Mina Sasaki, Tadashi Sasaki, Igor Shoshin, Silesian Guitar Octet, Jim Skinger, Hopkinson Smith, Sandro di Stefano, Pavel Steidl, Peter Stuart, Tracy Stuart, Finn Svit, Ernesto Tamayo, Andrés Tapia, Milan Tesař, Scott Tennant, Daniel Thomas, Luciano Tortorelli, Viva Flamenco Group, Andrea Vettoretti, Stefano Viola, Katarzyna a Franciszek Wiaczorek, Rex Willis, Leo Witoszinskyj, Andrew York, Jaromír Zámečník, Salvatore Zema, Jorge Luis Zamora, Dagmar Zsapka, Jozef Zsapka

Countries of the Festival Participants 1992 – 2010
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, China, Denmark, Chile, Croatia, Holland, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Izrael, Ireland, Canada, Costa Rica, Lichtenstein, Litua, Japan, South Africa, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Peru, Poland, Austria, Romania, Russia, Greece, Slovakia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA, Great Britain, Venezuela

Guitar Makers 1992 – 2010
Olivier Fanton d´Andon / Fr, Peter Barton / GB, Jiří Dobeš / ČR, Frank-Peter Dietrich / Ger, Noel Callaert / Hol, Armin Gropp / Ger, Hanika, Jeroen Hilhorst / Ned, Johanes Hoffer /Austria, Veit Jacob / Ger, Janis&Thasos Koukourigos /Greece, Petr Matoušek / ČR, Stefano Robol / Itálie, Masaki Sakurai / Japan, Jan Schneider / ČR, Joachim Schneider / ČR, Michal Schneider / ČR, Robert Schneider / ČR, Václav Svoboda / ČR, Martin Šuk / ČR, Klaus Vogt / Ger, Fabio Zontini / It,

Premiers of Works Performed in 1992 – 2010, listed by the composers
John W. Duarte, Nikita Koshkin, Francis Kleynjans, Boris Gaquere, Štěpán Rak, Milan Tesař, Miloš Štědroň, Rex Willis, Jan Šimíček, Miroslav Větrovec

Artists , who performed at Concerts Arranged by the Czech Classical Guitar Society Outside the Festival
Aightetta Quartett, James Bogle, Arnie Brown, Abel Carlevaro, Rafael Catalá, Joaquin Clerch (ve spolupráci), Costas Cotsiolis, John Dowdall, Duo W. Anderson – J. Forsyth, Duo Arianne, Duo Evans – Madriguera, Duo V. Křivá – M. Hovorková, Duo Violara: Fister & Palier, Duo I. Perragallo – J. Pedroni, Duo Š. Rak – J. Svěcený, Duo Š. Rak – A.Strejček, Duo P. Štefal – P. Bauer, Jevgenij Finkelstein, Duo P. Zeoli – K. Navosack, Libor Fišer, Alexandr Frauči, Freiburg Guitar Quartet, Gerald Garcia, Gorizia guitar Orchestra, Jana Holáňová, Jana Chocholáčová, Jakob Christensen, Toshiji Ishii, Roman Jedlička, Jaromíra Ježková, Stanislav Juřica, Miloslav Klaus, Daniel Kropáček, Thierry Lebre, Paco de Lucia (ve spolupráci), Milan Matoušek, Alois Menšík, Vladimír Mikulka, Martin Mysliveček, Gregory Nisnevich, Eva Nysik, Raúl Olmos, Hans Palier, David Parsons, Pražské marimbové trio, Red Cedar Trio, David Russel, Rolando Saad, Michel Sadanowski, Ben Salfield, Gergely Sárközy, Petr Seidl, Pavel Steidl, David Sussman, Vladimír Tomčányi, Trio de Paris (ve spolupráci), Aleš Trnka, Denisa Veškrnová, Franciszek Wieczorek, Brian Wright, Milan Zelenka, Jozef Zsapka, Jan Žáček